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In “Walking into sad history” (Perspective, Aug. 15), about the expulsion of Germans from Silesia following World War II, guest writer Stefanie Bolzen concludes that her uncle’s Silesian eagle is part of her story. Other parts that she does not mention are the higher than average support that the Germans of Silesia gave to Adolf Hitler and that Poland received this territory in compensation for territory lost to the Soviet Union as well as for Germany’s brutal assault on Poland. This does not justify the displacement that many innocent Germans suffered. Nor does the fact that the Germans of Silesia were replaced in large part by innocent Poles displaced by the Soviet Union.
But that, too, is part of the story.
